These girls are better dancers than fighters in this pretty lousy action flick.

Hungarian gangsters and young ballerinas don’t mix in the lousy action movie “Pretty Lethal,” and it makes more sense it goes to Amazon Prime Video and not in a theater. While we have the bloody and wickedly entertaining sequel “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” in theaters, this one is far from worth the rush to the theater. So, I guess there must be a distinction of what must be shown in theaters and what should be shown online.

In “Pretty Lethal,” we meet a group of young ballerinas, who travel to Budapest for a gala event. They consist of the overachieving Bones (Maddie Ziegler), the snooty Princess (Lana Candor), the religious Grace (Avantika), the cowardly Zoe (Iris Apatow), and her deaf sister Chloe (deaf actress Millicent Simonds). Their bus breaks down in the middle of the woods, and they seek refuge at a local inn run by a former dancer named Devora Kasimer (Uma Thurman), never dreaming that they would be in grave danger.

One of the gangsters kills their dance teacher (Lydia Leonard), and the boss has the girls locked in a basement promising them sanctuary. But do you honestly believe that when she’s running an inn with gangsters all around? That’s when Bones becomes the action heroine and leads almost all her girls to freedom. Almost because Princess has to leave the girls to save her own skin, while Chloe is seeing a cute boy and completely oblivious to all this chaos.

Here’s when the film wants to merge some “Kill Bill,” “Ballerina,” and “Kingsman” overtones. The dancers tape blades to their toes so they can dance and slice their enemies throats or stab them at the same time.

Now, here’s a rotary phone scene that’s as dumb as what was displayed in “Clown in a Cornfield,” except it has to involve the obligatory middle finger. Princess doesn’t how to use one, and when Bones tells her: “Turn the wheel with your finger and dial, dumbass,” she does it with her middle finger.

And here’s when the film reminds us a little of Pearl being jealous of the young actors and filmmakers about to achieve fame in “X.” Devora is also jealous that the girls will achieve the fame she never had, and her metal leg is the reason. But I don’t think they’re the reasons why she’s the villain. Or was she supposed to be a villain in the first place?

The original title of “Pretty Lethal” was “Ballerina Overdrive.” I think that title makes more sense, considering the action and behaviors the girls engage in. Ziegler has a better attitude than she does on a character development, especially when she gives the girl a wake-up call: “You can’t keep saying: We have to get other of here.” But the other actresses are wasted and rely on insults, FUs, and middle fingers as ways of solving their own conflicts. Candor can do better than act like this. And I’m especially disenchanted to see Simmonds (who was great in the “Quiet Place” movies and “Wonderstruck”) basically acting like an immature sister who, without her hearing aids, can’t grasp her current reality. And when she does, it’s all by the numbers.

Thurman has specialized in the action movie genre before and she still can. But her character is so underdeveloped and relies on the rising action to tackle her own drama. “Pretty Lethal” is no “Kill Bill.”

You still have time to see “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” in a theater. It’s not better than the first, but it still delivers with the right amount of gore, strong young women, and attitude. Maybe these ballerinas could learn a thing or two from Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton.

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